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Coach Eddie Johnson has just left for New Zealand with a pack of shredders for three weeks of winter-time training. This trip has been a successful part of OMS's training regimen for several years now and has proven to be very gainful for the athlete's abilities as we head into our own winter season in just a few more months.

Keep your eye out for postings from "Down Under". Eddie said he will be posting from New Zealand as soon as they get settled.

Benjamin Farrow has been invited to join the USASA Pac-Sun Snow Team for the 2009-2010 season!

Congratulations Ben!

An excerpt from Ski Racing Magazine lauds Julia Ford:

Even Lindsey Vonn commented that she'll "keep an eye on" Julia after Ford's performances at the 2009 U.S. Alpine Championships.

Ford caught everyone's attention with her 7th place national giant slalom(on her 19th birthday, no less) and downhill results and an 8th place in slalom, and then finished off her season with a couple of podium finishes at the FIS Spring Series races at Mammoth Mountain, edging out some of the bigger names.

Ford also barely missed the podium at this year's junior worlds in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, taking 4th in the super combined.  She notched about a dozen top -10s in each discipline on the Nor-Am circuit, including a win in super  combi and podiums in GS and slalom.  She also earned her first Europa Cup points with a 27th place finish in slalom in Melchee Frutt, Switzerland.

Needless to say, this teenager is going to be on everyone's radar.

Congratulations to Julia from all of us at Okemo Mountain School!!

The following slideshow is courtesy of DJ Jenson at one of our practice sessions at Breckenridge, CO.

Quinton Jones with a lofty Lien air. Max Jenson with a Method, boosting out of the Halfpipe Chris Abel grabbing nose in the middle of his 3 Dan Landy tweaked out Frontside grab, nose down Peter Cerulo Nose 3 in another huge air Max Jenson with a Mellon 720, boosting again, spotting his landing Dan Landy Mute 3 in another lofty air

Quinton Jones with a lofty Lien air. Max Jenson with a Method, boosting out of the Halfpipe Chris Abel grabbing nose in the middle of his 3 Dan Landy tweaked out Frontside grab, nose down Peter Cerulo Nose 3 in another huge air Max Jenson with a Mellon 720, boosting again, spotting his landing Dan Landy Mute 3 in another lofty air